On Sep 2, 9:21*am, Dave Smith > wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>
> >> The worst part is that I am going to have to consider giving up riding
> >> lessons. I broke my collar bone 6 years ago but went back to lessons
> >> when that healed and thought that I could keep doing it as long as there
> >> were no more injuries. *Now I have broken a second bone, and I am
> >> getting close to 60.
> >> :-(
>
> > Geez, that sucks! At lease you live to talk about it!
>
> > At YMCA camp I was 7-yo, a horse reared me off it, I landed on the ground.
> > It was just a roped around and around a pole, coral exercise. Don't know
> > what I did or didn't do or why it did what it did but I've never gone near
> > a horse ever since.

Maybe it was your personality.
>
> I used to ride once every year or two and fell off so often that I
> assumed that was part of the deal. I have been taking lessons for the
> last 6 years and had not fallen for more than two years. Only got hurt a
> few times falling, but broken collar bone and rib are painful enough to
> make me reconsider equestrian jumping at my age.

Really. You don't have to give up riding, just quit putting obstacles
in the horse's way.

--Bryan